Adult Friend Finder et al
If you are in a hurry just visit Adult Friend Finder and skip the review below. Your boldness may be rewarded.
Back in the early days of the internet — before 1998 so or — the internet was a money tree, as long as you were selling something that featured tits, ass or pussy. In those halycon days, a few humble beings were inspired by an ever-fickle golden muse to launch porn sites based on a few simple but powerful ideas. Some of these beings had the moxie to maintain their business through the fabled Internet Crash and some had idea good enough that they survived even though the principles were notably moxie-less. A few of the standout were:
A mild-mannered English gent with a penchant for bondage was happily inspired by an Andrew Blake movie to realize that guys like to watch pretty women getting fucked but really don’t like some other guy’s hairy spotted ass getting in the way. So he launched Fucking Machines for money and Hogtied for pleasure and made a mint, or has history would have it, an Armory.
A less pleasant sort discovered that if you asked people to send you naked pictures for free that you could post on the internet and charge money for, they would — in large numbers. Thus VoyeurWeb was born. We are not fans. VoyeurWeb’s schtick invloved posting zillions of photos with captions like: “if my GF/wife/sister knew I was posting this she’d KILL ME!” I’ve no idea how true this is, but to the extent it is — no small extent — I hope she did, and she did. Any such asshole deserves a lingering and painful death. VoyeurWeb prospered however, though the potentially illegalites of their business model appear to have made them seek refuge amongst the sympathetic despots out in the Far Reaches of the Earth.
But the most succesful (or so I suspect) was the guy who concluded that if the primary purpose of a dating site was to get laid, the goods should be out in full view. So he started Adult Friend Finder which has since appeared under a large variety of domains, including Lesbian Personals (which we like because the graphics are much less tacky). AFF has been wildly successful; not so much as a dating site perhaps but it is now very probably the largest porn site the world has ever known.
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